Tories' Racist Provocation
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Youth arrested in Newham demo, July 19 d for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX. 1 er at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the view The publication of the Tory government's new nationality White Paper is both a concession to the huge racist lobby within the Tory Party and an attempt to rekindle racist agitation with a view to dividing the working class.
The White Paper proposes three tiers of British citizenship with only the top tier having automatic right to enter and live in Britain.
The two categories of British overseas citizens - with no right to anything - are composed largely of blacks in British dependent territories and former colonies.
Since vicious immigration laws already virtually prohibit new immigration into Britain, White Paper is simply a provocation - at a time when the National Front is again emerging.
The NF plans to exploit Tory unemployment by calling ited by Morning Litho Printers LI if the Workers Socialist League. a march on the theme «British jobs for British workers" through the immigrant area of Handsworth, Birmingham, on August 17..
Anti-fascists are organising a counter-demonstration, while reformists and pacifists try to persuade the Tories and police to ban the fascist march.
Supported
Meanwhile the London Region of the Labour Party has backed the call for protest demonstrations in the Newham area of East London against the continued attacks against immigrants by racists and fascists.
The second major march, on August 2nd, attracted some 3,000.
The protests have been triggered by the murder of a young Pakistani man in East Ham High Street during the afternoon of Thursday July 17 by four skinheads.
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